2016
DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341329
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Distinctive Beliefs and Practices (华人宗教信仰和实践)

Abstract: This article examines the history of Chinese religiosities in Saskatoon. Chinese Religion(s), described by Jordan and Li Paper and David Chuenyan Lai as an “unrecognized” religion in Canada, can just as easily be described as “misunderstood.” To better understand the “religion(s)” of Chinese Canadians, this exploratory essay concentrates on the population in Saskatoon from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries with the help of archival materials that range from oral interviews to photographs; … Show more

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“…Although I have never met a self-identified Confucian, Confucian ideals are often found in the person's conversation, whatever their (non-)affiliation is. See Woo (2010), Chinese Popular Religion in Diaspora: A Case Study of Shrines in Toronto's Chinatowns; and Woo (2016), Distinctive Beliefs and Practices: Chinese Religiosities in Saskatoon. 14 Ritual is treated here as a broad equivalent to Religion and includes informal practices like bowing three times when offering incense at a temple or in front of an ancestral altar at home, chanting and meditating alone or with others, placing a shrine at the foot of a tree, and visiting the grave of a dead relative to pay respects.…”
Section: Common Notions In Popular Religiositiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Although I have never met a self-identified Confucian, Confucian ideals are often found in the person's conversation, whatever their (non-)affiliation is. See Woo (2010), Chinese Popular Religion in Diaspora: A Case Study of Shrines in Toronto's Chinatowns; and Woo (2016), Distinctive Beliefs and Practices: Chinese Religiosities in Saskatoon. 14 Ritual is treated here as a broad equivalent to Religion and includes informal practices like bowing three times when offering incense at a temple or in front of an ancestral altar at home, chanting and meditating alone or with others, placing a shrine at the foot of a tree, and visiting the grave of a dead relative to pay respects.…”
Section: Common Notions In Popular Religiositiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…other-they can very easily coexist. (Woo 2010(Woo , 2016 To reference Zhuangzi very loosely, "this" and "that" are not merely oppositional complements that only stand side by side, they live in each other.…”
Section: Secularism and Other Theories: Easternization And Westernizamentioning
confidence: 99%